Connecticut western news., 1887-05-04
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Allen Thorndike Rices "PIains" farm is coveted for a monastery by Pennsylvania order.
 Connecticut legislators decline to do with out their railroad passes.
 Five miners imprisoned in collierv at Ashland, Pa., by the collapse of pillar, were suffocated before they could be reached by would-be rescuers.
 Mr. Blaine is reported to be suffering from Bright's disease.
 A scaffold at Monticello, Ill, was precipi- tated to the ground by the antics of calf, one of the four men on it being killed and one fatally injured.
 The Massachusetts House has passed the High License bill.
 Four hundred children in Madison, Wis, are sick with the measles The public schools have been closed.
 The body of Mrs. B. Kennedy, the wife of a milkman living near Dubuque, 1a., has been found on the river bank, where she had been assaulted and murdered.
 Calvin P. Graves, the murderer of the Maine game wardens, who arrested in Cal ifornia has been taken to Bangor
 Samuel Huand, the $15,OO0 defauting County Treasurer at Delphi, Ind, has been arrested
 The Old Colony Company intend to build a companion boatt to the Pilgrim, to be called the Puritan.
 
 Lodge of Maryland will be celebrated May 1o II and 12. Every Grand Lodge in America will send representatives, and 8 number of high degree Masons from Europe will be pres ent. The Prince of Wales has acknowledged his invitation.
 The dead bodies of three infants were found wrapped in papers in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
 Thomas Northrup, respected citizen of Haverhill, Ohio was murdered by four men named Mccoy, who bear hard name.
 The Indians ill the vicinity of Yuma, Ariz., are suffering from an epidemic of measles, which had proved fatal in 60 cases up to date. The seventeenth annual convention of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, is in session in C1eve- land, O.. During the past year $135, ,0O0 has been spent in mission work.
 Two tramps, lying on the track near Van dalia, derailed train and killed several head of cattle. The tramps were mangled beyond recognition.
 Secretary Whitney has approved the re- ports of the Boards of Survey on the United States ships Nipsic and Enterprise, now at New York, and ordered the work of repairing the vessels to be begun at once.
 George Harrington, while riding on a freight train near Lancaster, Mass, With friend named Langen, fell between the cars eOoAA VI eAAO
 The Ohio River was above the danger line at Evansville and still rising. Its tributaries in that vicinity had overfowed, and mills, fac tories, lumber yards and dwellings were under water. The country between Jasper and Hunt lngburg was vast sea.
 St. Louis has made successful experl- ment With electric street car motors
 Indianapolis is to have natural gas sys- tenn for heating and manufacturing purposes.
 of Cincinnati caught burning her babe up in a cooking stove, and was arrested. The father of the child was also arrested. and the roasted infant was taken out of the fire by officers.
 The settlers are quietly leaving the Grow Creek Indian reservations to avoid evictions
 Fifty Philadelphia manufacturers, repre- senting capital of nearly S1OO,O00OO0, have formed Manufacturers Club for the pur- pose of taking part in discussing questions of the day.
 Turner and Pattison the negro assailants of Jennie Bowman at Louisville. have been re- moved to Lexington to prevent lynching.
 James Nixon. an old hermit living near Harmansville, Butler county, Pa., who had no faith in banks, has been robbed of $500 in cash and government securities, which he had seereted in his house.
 -G. B. Mason and wife, of New Orleans, are making an extended tour on tricycles. They rode up the west bank of the Mississippi to Iowa, and have now reached Louisville on their return. Mrs. Mason has been cured of inflammatory rheumatism by the trip. Southern Ohio towns are suffering from fire bugs.
 Gen. Greeley's baby girl has received an anonymous gift of $500.
 Two members of the Fusilier family in St.. Laundry Parish, La., died from the effects of strychniue which was accidentally given in- stead of quinine.
 The Brush Electric Light works in Gin -innati have been burned. Loss $55,O00.
 Y. B. Stevens, Chief Clerk of the Empire Fast Freight Line at Cleveland, has absconded to Canada with the company's funds and a strange woman.
 Nathan Parlow has been acquitted of the murder of William Taylor at St. Joseph, Mo. He las been in jail more than three years and had four trials.
 Joshua Baker, Mormon Elder from Ida ho, who, wit-l his three wives and eight children, was On his way to Alabama, was ar rested in Chicago for bigamy.
 1.-The corner stone of new 5000 Catho- lie church was laid at Council Bluffs in the presence of 10000 people. James Freeman, a wealthy farmer living | near Clarksburg, W. Va, killed Isaac Cartrell, coal miner, in dispute over a debt of 50 cents.
 Two dry kilns on Cedar street, near State StIeet, CulCdSO, containing 0,UUU DuSlelS or dry malt, were burned. Loss, $50, ,OOO.
 Tho Downs scandal at Boston is to be re- l vived in Q new trial of the cx-pastor's sui against his former society for upaid salary. The annual flood ill the Ohio Valley is now under full headway The arrest of train hands who have been ,aithless to their trusts. have been commenced by the Pennsylvania Railroad. | Measles are epidemic in Madison, Wis, and black fever rages in the Valley of the St. Maurice, Quebec. | -'Doc" Wilson, of Moen notoriety, attempt ed suicide at Providence R. I.
 The stove molders at Detroit are chafins under orders to work on boycotted patterns.
 The Hubbard (O.) tin mill, the first in the | United States, has started. A large stock of block plate for timing has been imported | from Swansea, Wales. R. J. Hutchinson. an English inventor and timer, is general manager
 More than three inches of rain fell in | Kentucky Ill twelve hours. The railroads of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan arc bIockaded by snow.
 The Michigan Legislature is unearthine star ling graveyard insurance frauds in that | State.
 President Mitchell, of the Detroit Ex- change Bank, has disappeared with the funds of the concern.
 -Flfteen Lowell, Mass, schoolboys, aged iron 9 to 15, tapped barrel of whisky in a railroad car and got gloriously drunk.
 The flood at Montreal was higher than last year.
 The belt of the recent cyclone extended from Iowa to Texas and from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast.
 Patrick Egan says Pinkerton's detectives are obtaining specimens of the handwriting of all prominent Land I Ieaguers in America.
 An underground gambling den, frequent cd only by boys in Indianapolis, was raidet and forty lads were caught playing poker.
 At Brady, Mich, Clark Harrison, farmer remonstrated with James Mcguire for abusing his (Maguire's) wife. Hot words followed and the men exchanged shots. Thinking ht had killed Mcguire, Harrison returned home took morphine and expired.